Phitsanulok and the Chat Trakan Waterfall

Phitsanulok city is around 400 kilometers from Bangkok. Topography is hilly and flat, the Nan River flows right through the center, with houseboats floating on the water. The city came to life around 700 years ago somehow similar to Sukhothai (which is just adjacent to the west) and Chiang Mai.

Since some historical traces were found dating back to the Stone Age indicating people lived there already long before. Places of interest are King Naresuan Shrine, Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat with a huge 36m tall pagoda in Khmer style built during the Ayutthaya period. There are several waterfalls and national parks in the province.

Phitsanulok city is a good hub to explore the province and have a look to the historical park at Sukhothai. There are a lot of good hotels and exotic restaurants for reasonable prices and a vibrant nightlife along the main road. It is also better to fly to this city instead of Sukhothai and take a hotel there because prices are much lower than in the well-known tourist destination to the west.

Since the distance is only minimal and there is a continuous flow of buses and vans between the two cities and on top of it Sukhothai is virtually "dead" in the evening.

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If you are out for a night fun don't listen to the guys at the hotels who only want to move you to a massage parlor to grab commission.

Do it on your own along the main road crossing the town via the big bridge, real things are going on there after 10 pm. Some good accommodations and hotels are the grand riverside hotel, Thani hotel and more. Several attractive waterfalls such as the Poi are located along the road to Lom Sak and branching from this road to the north is highway 2013 with the marvelous

a realdream like setting right out of a Hollywood movie and there are some more along this road to Lom Sak, Lom Sak actually is already in Loei province.

Plenty of beautiful travel spots and landscape panoramas are waiting to give the traveler unforgettable impressions, just look at the pictures here and the videos in the video section.